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Board Hardware
Re: GekkoScience has a new pod miner, just in time for Christmas
by
100knot2dae
on 25/01/2023, 18:56:24 UTC
thermal conductivity is impacted due to height of thermal path so, don’t exceed 1mm so still stays in a good small size and then you dont need crazy high conductivity pads 20+ and a 13+ will do a great job, 0.5 can be very thin and can get easily damaged so a .75-1mm to my experience is a good choice and still will effectively conduct heat to the heatsink.
Thanks, I think I will order a set of these Iceberg pads: https://www.iceberg-thermal.com/product/consumer/thermal-pad/driftice/. 80x40 should be a near to perfect fit, just need to cut the length a little. Hope that I won't mess up with the upper heatsinks' thermal pad when re-screwing the bottom heatsinks...

Actually the unit is running very well at the moment, but I don't think I can leave it now without these pads attached, now that I know of the air gap. Roll Eyes

It's like @n0nce has said, this neat device makes you want to tinker with it.  Grin

@sidehack: Would be great if you could share details on the thermal pads used for the upper heatsinks.